Removing Trim From Walls With Carpet

Repainting a room can be broken down into several segments.

Removing trim from walls with carpet. Roll or fold the strip secure with duct tape and remove it. How to remove baseboards without damaging the drywall. Then grab the carpet by hand and continue to pull it up along an entire wall. Pull up a few feet of carpet and fold it over.

When the corner of the carpet is loose use your gloved hands to pull along the length of the wall. To detach the carpet from the tack strip that holds the carpet in place along walls start in a corner. Fortunately you can trim and edge carpet yourself in just a few minutes using a few simple carpet installation tools. The most time consuming step in the process is removing staples.

Be gentle whether you want to reuse the trim or not as pulling too hard can cause damage to the wall behind the trim. Keep both hands on the knife to avoid cutting a free hand. Edging carpet along a wall is perhaps the most important part of carpet installation. Remove this trim first by using a putty knife.

If you re planning on replacing carpet or flooring you ll need to replace the floor trim first. One of these segments is painting the baseboard trim a process that can be somewhat trickier if the room has wall to wall carpet. Just grab the carpet with pliers and pull. Use pliers to pull each staple from the subfloor image 2 then place staples into disposable plastic cup.

Use a utility knife with a sharp new blade to cut through the carpet backing. A messy or lumpy carpet edge is easily noticeable and may get worse with time. Prepare the floor trim for removal and extraction with help. Gently tap the putty knife with a hammer to start to pry the trim from the wall.

Remove baseboard try a new way of taking off existing floor molding without damaging it or your walls. Once all of the carpet has been removed it s time to remove the padding following the same steps outlined above image 1.